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SCarolinaCy said:
'So much for honor': Colleges partied last weekend. Is COVID spike coming?
www.usatoday.com

'So much for honor': Despite COVID cases, college students partied Labor Day weekend away

From double-decker party boats to shadowy riverside gatherings, college students have found a way to party. Will the fall semester survive?
www.usatoday.com

I don't see anything slowing this thing down. Grade schools, high schools, and social distancing can be completely controlled, but college kids don't want to be distanced. Virus be damned, and IMO, no one is going to be able to stop them. Private school kids that live behind stone gates and virtually in a bubble ignore the warnings. Public university kids are completely exposed. Everyone on this site is going to disagree with me, but the young have found a way to stick it to the establishment. And, there's nothing we can do about it.
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Yeah sadly college is a time of our lives where we feel invincible and it's all about us. I was that way 15 years ago.
 
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mj4cy said:
Yeah sadly college is a time of our lives where we feel invincible and it's all about us. I was that way 15 years ago.
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My thoughts exactly. College kids are generally very self-absorbed and have a very high risk tolerance, myself included (100 yrs ago). Think of how many times we took our lives into our own hands through just drinking alone. How many times did you see someone so drunk they couldn't even talk? Or sat up with a friend to keep them from choking on vomit in their sleep? These were all "normal" parts of the college experience, at least for me. I'm sure to them, COVID is just one other risk that "may not even happen to me." I'm generalizing, of course.
 
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SCarolinaCy said:
'So much for honor': Colleges partied last weekend. Is COVID spike coming?
www.usatoday.com

'So much for honor': Despite COVID cases, college students partied Labor Day weekend away

From double-decker party boats to shadowy riverside gatherings, college students have found a way to party. Will the fall semester survive?
www.usatoday.com

I don't see anything slowing this thing down. Grade schools, high schools, and social distancing can be completely controlled, but college kids don't want to be distanced. Virus be damned, and IMO, no one is going to be able to stop them. Private school kids that live behind stone gates and virtually in a bubble ignore the warnings. Public university kids are completely exposed. Everyone on this site is going to disagree with me, but the young have found a way to stick it to the establishment. And, there's nothing we can do about it.
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How does this fit the positive news category? Plenty of other threads for this kind of comment. I believe looking at evidence, it just won't matter what college kids do. No matter what is or isn't done the virus will peak and then fall. Usually the fall is just as rapid as the peak. None of the college kids or almost none of them will be hospitalized. Very positive numbers everywhere. We'll see if there is a day or two adjustment for lack of testing over the holiday, but if not, we may be seeing the rapid fall in cases New York saw at about the same exposure rate to the population.
 
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SCarolinaCy said:
'So much for honor': Colleges partied last weekend. Is COVID spike coming?
www.usatoday.com

'So much for honor': Despite COVID cases, college students partied Labor Day weekend away

From double-decker party boats to shadowy riverside gatherings, college students have found a way to party. Will the fall semester survive?
www.usatoday.com

I don't see anything slowing this thing down. Grade schools, high schools, and social distancing can be completely controlled, but college kids don't want to be distanced. Virus be damned, and IMO, no one is going to be able to stop them. Private school kids that live behind stone gates and virtually in a bubble ignore the warnings. Public university kids are completely exposed. Everyone on this site is going to disagree with me, but the young have found a way to stick it to the establishment. And, there's nothing we can do about it.
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But it is slowing down.....
 
throwittoblythe said:
My thoughts exactly. College kids are generally very self-absorbed and have a very high risk tolerance, myself included (100 yrs ago). Think of how many times we took our lives into our own hands through just drinking alone. How many times did you see someone so drunk they couldn't even talk? Or sat up with a friend to keep them from choking on vomit in their sleep? These were all "normal" parts of the college experience, at least for me. I'm sure to them, COVID is just one other risk that "may not even happen to me." I'm generalizing, of course.
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College students aren't worried about covid19 because they aren't at risk of covid19.

 
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isutrevman said:
Yes, but nationwide declining hospitalizations and deaths suggest that isn't happening at a very high rate. The goal was never to have zero infections, or deaths.
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100% agree. I truly see both sides of this. The goal originally was to not overtax the healthcare system. We are nowhere close to doing that right now. That being said, college students being more aware of asymptomatic carriers could save a few lives.
 
Clonehomer said:
Maybe. But it does make sense that Story and Johnson got under control after the bars were shut down and the state in general is coming down once the cities and stores took action on makes mandates. We've seen additional anecdotal evidence in other states as well that these measures do actually work. It's going to be difficult to prove for sure what made the difference, but something seems to be helping.
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I'm pro-mask. Would love to see a state wide mandate.
 
mj4cy said:
Agree but the issue is they can get it, not know about it, and pass it to those who can't fight it off as well.
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So why not protect the vulnerable and let everybody else go about life as usual? Those things aren’t as mutually exclusive as we have been led to believe.
 
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Acylum said:
So why not protect the vulnerable and let everybody else go about life as usual? Those things aren’t as mutually exclusive as we have been led to believe.
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How do we perfectly isolate the vulnerable from the rest of the population? I've been trying to figure out a way. LTC facilities are still having outbreaks and that's about as isolated as we can get.
 
Acylum said:
So why not protect the vulnerable and let everybody else go about life as usual? Those things aren’t as mutually exclusive as we have been led to believe.
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This gets tricky thinking of someone going about life as normal if they have someone vulnerable in their home.

Thinking more along the lines of in-person work, not going out slammin' jaeger bombs.
 
cycloneG said:
How do we perfectly isolate the vulnerable from the rest of the population? I've been trying to figure out a way. LTC facilities are still having outbreaks and that's about as isolated as we can get.
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cycloneG said:
More masks can only help!

www.telegraphherald.com

Cedar Falls joins with other Iowa cities in requiring masks

DES MOINES — Cedar Falls approved a mask mandate Tuesday, joining with other Iowa cities that have taken similar moves as the state continues to see high numbers of confirmed
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cycloneG said:
I'm all for everyone wearing a mask.
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So am I. Especially if they know how to wear one. But everybody sitting at home wearing their masks accomplishes nothing. And the funny thing is, you and I have debated for a long time and I don't think we're as diametrically opposed as you think. But you can't extol the virtues of masks while simultaneously telling the entire population to hunker down.
 
Acylum said:
So am I. Especially if they know how to wear one. But everybody sitting at home wearing their masks accomplishes nothing. And the funny thing is, you and I have debated for a long time and I don't think we're as diametrically opposed as you think. But you can't extol the virtues of masks while simultaneously telling the entire population to hunker down.
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More for limiting gathering sizes and wearing masks. It's important to be outside as much as you can. I've been playing a lot of golf.
 
CloneLawman said:
Hey, friend, I got called out for asking that question in here. I didn't see you complaining about it then, though, probably because you were more comfortable with the messenger I was questioning.

Once more, here's what the OP had to say about the thread title:


Don't you think we should give a little bit of leeway for discussion of less than "sunshine, rainbows and unicorns" type positive items so long as it has some sort of nexus to understanding what can be done to move forward? Those negative threads you are talking about are all in the cave, and shouldn't there be an informative space outside the cave for those who don't want to enter it?
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Create a COVID "informative" thread. This is positive.
 
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